Digestive system

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Liver

Produces some amino acids, filters the blood, converts harmful substances into safe ones, regulates blood sugar, and produces bile

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Gallbladder

Stores bile

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Esophagus

Muscular tube that moves food from the mouth and throat to the stomach

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Stomach

Stores food, as well as chemicals and mechanical digestion

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Spleen

Lymphoid organ with white blood cells, and to clean up old or damaged red blood cells

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Duodenum

Receives enzymes and digestive fluids from the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas

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Pancreas

Secretes digestive enzymes and hormones

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Cecum

In rabbits, is very large and aids in plant digestion via fermentation, in humans, much smaller and doesn't play a major digestive role

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Appendix

Constricted projection that protrudes from the distal portion of the cecum, and is also larger in rabbits than in humans

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Large intestine (AKA colon)

Primarily responsible for water reabsorption

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Rectum

Stores feces

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Anus

Opening where feces is expelled out the body